{"id":21516,"date":"2024-10-21T01:48:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T01:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/?p=21516"},"modified":"2024-10-21T01:48:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T01:48:15","slug":"how-to-pass-along-religious-traditions-without-embarrassing-your-teenagers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2024\/10\/21\/how-to-pass-along-religious-traditions-without-embarrassing-your-teenagers\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Pass Along Religious Traditions (Without Embarrassing Your Teenagers)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, October 12, 2024 (Public Radio Tulsa): As many parents know, the line between passing along cultural traditions and mortifying your children in public can be perilously thin. For one mother, that dilemma arose this year ahead of Navaratri, a Hindu festival celebrating female strength that culminates today. One of the festival&#8217;s key components is garba, an intricate folk dance from the Indian state of Gujarat. Storyteller and playwright Nimisha Ladva says that some of her fondest memories are of attending Navaratri celebrations as a kid in England. \u201cLet&#8217;s just start with the clothes,\u201d Ladva said. \u201cThey have mirrors and tassels and bells. It\u2019s maximum dress-up possibility.\u201d But the heart of these festivals was garba, and particularly the women dancing. \u201cThis is women taking up space literally, in a way that was different from normal life,\u201d Ladva said.<br><br>Now teaching at Haverford College outside Philadelphia, Ladva wanted to share the thrill of garba with her daughters. One problem, though. She had no moves. \u201cOn a scale of one to 10,\u201d she said, \u201cI might make like a two.\u201d She wanted to improve. So this year, she enlisted the help of a coordinated friend to give Ladva and her two daughters garba lessons. They planned to test their skills at their local temple&#8217;s Navaratri celebration. Ladva&#8217;s daughters, though, were not as enthusiastic \u2014 as 12-year old Himani revealed while chatting with her mom. \u201cHow awkward is that going to be?\u201d Himani said at their home in Wynnewood, PA. \u201cWould you like to be able to do some more of the steps?\u201d Ladva asked. \u201cNo,\u201d Himani said. Ladva\u2019s other daughter, 15-year old Medha, was skeptical of the whole project. \u201cI love my culture,\u201d she said, \u201cand I&#8217;m happy to be Indian. But I&#8217;d rather learn organically with my friends or on a holiday.\u201d<br><br>More of Ladva\u2019s account of their ultimately successful dance:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicradiotulsa.org\/npr-national-news\/2024-10-12\/how-to-pass-along-religious-traditions-without-embarrassing-your-teenagers\n\">https:\/\/www.publicradiotulsa.org\/npr-national-news\/2024-10-12\/how-to-pass-along-religious-traditions-without-embarrassing-your-teenagers<br><\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, October 12, 2024 (Public Radio Tulsa): As many parents know, the line between passing along cultural traditions and,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21516"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21533,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21516\/revisions\/21533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}